It's always important to have a website that loads quickly. Most users will not wait for more than a few seconds for the page to load. Just one second too long could mean that your users will go to a competitor's site. Here are some quick and easy ways to speed up your website.
If you're a web designer, I'm sure that you also hate Internet Explorer 6. You probably spend hours designing a website, and when you go to test it in IE6, it looks like crap. You then have to spend even more time just to get it to work in that one browser.
Lately, I've been getting requests from businesses for website designs. Of course, they want it designed in—you guessed it—Flash.
Sure, Flash could have some practical uses, but it shouldn't be used in a business' website. Even after many rants on the internet about why Flash shouldn't be used, I still get many requests for Flash design.
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the main standards organization for the World Wide Web, has said that they would stop further development for the markup language XHTML 2 to increase available resources for the development of HTML 5.